Colorado mom stranded after crash expected to go home soon

By: Associated Press

June 22, 2014Updated: June 22, 2014 at 1:42 pm

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LAKEWOOD, CO - MAY 22: Kristin Hopkins talked to the Denver Post Thursday afternoon, May 22, 2014 from her bed at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood. She had to have both feet amputated following an accident that left her stranded in her vehicle for several days. She says she has no idea how she got so far away from home the day of the accident. (Photo by Karl Gehring/The Denver Post)

DENVER — A woman who was stranded in her car for about a week after crashing off a Colorado highway is expected to go home soon to continue her recovery.

Kristin Hopkins is being fitted for prosthetic legs in Denver after both of her feet were amputated following the crash northwest of Fairplay. She's expected to leave a rehab center in about a week to live at her parents' home.

Her feet were crushed when she crashed her car and landed upside down off U.S. Highway 285. The single mother, who didn't have any food or water, was discovered May 4 after passersby happened to notice some glare from below the road.